Blackwater’s once-reclusive Erik Prince has launched a PR offensive, bringing the press to the private-security firm’s Moyock, N.C. compound and showing up on TV chat shows. (More on that in a moment.) The strategy is clear enough: Prince wants to debunk Blackwater’s image as out-of-control mercenaries in the wake of the Nisour Square shootings. And that’s because Prince is prepping his company for even more lucrative contracts than the billion dollars Blackwater has received from the U.S. government since 9/11. As The Wall Street Journal reports today, Prince is looking to take on the biggest defense contractors in the country.
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